An overview of the major world systems, and where and how they have been and are implemented. Introduction Religious Legal Systems Religious law emanates from the sacred texts of religious traditions and in most cases purports to cover all aspects of life as a seamless part of devotional obligations to a transcendent, imminent, or deep[…]
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. Ancient Codes From the commencement to the close of its history, the expositors of Roman Law consistently employed language which implied that the body of their system rested on the Twelve Decemviral Tables, and therefore on a basis[…]
Socrates said that law was a discovery of the reality in relations – that is, of the ideally significant. Lecture by Dr. Nathan Roscoe Pound / 04.04.1940Dean of Harvard Law School, 1916-1936 Law is a word of many meanings. In the sense in which I shall be using it, in the sense of law with[…]